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Re: [rfa/doc] Update ui-out; Was: [patch] Add col_name to ui_out_table_header()
- To: ac131313 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: [rfa/doc] Update ui-out; Was: [patch] Add col_name to ui_out_table_header()
- From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 11:18:40 +0300
- CC: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
> Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 22:19:26 -0400
> From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
>
> > English is not my first language (not even the second, actually), but
> > I know RMS always corrects my passive-tense sentences.
>
> So FSF documents should be written as second person present tense
> (correct name?).
I don't know if that's something in the GNU standards. I understand
that it's simply considered to be a good English style: it's better to
say "you do this and that" instead of "this and that is done".